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Northern fur seal floating, asleep, with back flippers folded over on left front flipper

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Description

Northern fur seal floating, asleep, with back flippers folded over on left front flipper. The fur seal fishery in the Bering Sea is an outstanding example ofsuccessful management. The resource - after overexploitation caused a seriousdecline - has been restored by wise application of knowledge after many years of scientific research.

Credit

NOAA Central Library Historical Fisheries Collection; P. 497 of Our Changing Fisheries 1970 Centenary NMFS centenary volume

Display Date

1969 circa

Collection

Historic Fisheries